The lawyer said the commission has no legal and constitutional rights to freeze his accounts in both banks when he is not under investigation for any crime that could warrant it to take such action.

On how the EFCC became involved on the matter, Nworgu said the family he won the land case for wanted to sell it for N7 million per plot.

According to him, some aggrieved members of the family disagreed on the sharing formula and petitioned the EFCC.

Nworgu said: “Sometime in April, my clients from Rumuwele family, Rumuchiorlu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, headed by Ojiowhor Ambrose Ihunwo and Chief Metu Ihunwo, sold a piece of land measuring 28 plots, won in the court of law. But a problem arose among the family members on how to share the money.

“The family, whom I won the land case for, decided to sell the land for N7 million per plot; some aggrieved members of the family disagreed over the sharing formula and petitioned the EFCC. The commission decided to take up the matter by instituting a suit against my client. But the matter I took to court was a civil matter and not criminal case.”

He disclosed that several attempts were made to compel the EFCC to hands off the matter noting that his client paid the money into his account why they were negotiating on how to equitably and amicably share the money among the legitimate family members.

He regretted that EFCC could not respond after several attempts made to ratify his account which they had frozen, adding that his health has begun to deteriorate as a diabetic and hypertension patients.

A reliable source from EFCC confirmed the matter, but regretted that the Commission would not want to be mention on a matter that is yet to be concluded by the court.